forms submit response

The server needs to return a response that Reader can understand. I normally use FDF, which can cause an informational pop-up to display, or a redirect (e.g., HTTP 302) to a URL that's a static or dynamically generated HTML page. Reader cannot convert the HTML response generated by the server, so you must do one of these other things. If you want to do a redirect, probably the most reliable thing to do is return an FDF that just contains a /F key that points to the redirect URL. If the response is going to be an FDF, the end of the URL that you specify in the submit form action needs to end in "#FDF".

Thanks, the FDF response is what I need, but I've been looking how to send an FDF Response from the server but, until now i didn't found anything. I´ve only found the oJaascript option in the submit form, but only when you submit from the pdf an FDF not an HTML

can you send some examples on how to do the FDF response?

What type of server-side programming are you using to process the form submissions?

I´m usig C# 4.0, some fragments of my code are

context.Response.ContentType = "text/plain"; //is there an "aplication/fdf"?

try
{
AuthenticateDto user = AuthenticateUser
(context.Request.Form["Usuario"], context.Request.Form["Clave"]);

if (!user.Success)
{
context.Response.Write("El usurio y/o la clave no son los correctos");
return;
}//Some processing code for the request

//if no errors
context.Response.Write("La información se guardo");
}
catch(...)
...
context.Response.Write("Error... " + detaill);
}

The MIME tpye for FDF is "application/vnd.fdf"

Here is a Perl routine that returns an FDF that causes a pop-up message to be displayed to the user:

Here is another that causes a redirect:

So as you can see, most of the FDF that the server has to generate is just boilerplate. What I didn't show is the code that ensures that the string that gets passed ($_[0]) to these routines is correctly encoded. For example, parentheses need to be properly escaped.

The PDF spec has more details on FDF and strings in PDF.

The forum software didn't correctly format that code, but I hope you can figure it out.

Edit: Here's a file that shows the code: https://acrobat.com/#d=COn7HhOSHIuGo4R*ByS3uw

Thaks for the file, it's working great.
In the previus code it apperas %FDF-1.21 as a line and 0 obj as another and that was the error.

I have created a form and added a submit button. I want the form to be emailed to a group of people and then filled out and sent back to me via email. I set up the submit button to email form to me but when I test it, it doesn't work. The form is emailed and then when I fill it out and click the submit button, first it asks about an email address but then I get the Save As window on the screen. I don't know what I am doing wrong. I have recreated the submit button several times but it will not email back to me. HELP!

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